Reason Behind Not Making Money with Your Porn Site

Adult industry is huge. But by no stretch of imagination, it’s an easy industry to be a part of. Having been in this industry for more than a decade, clients often ask me how to start a porn site and the exact next query is how we can make money out of it. There are more than one hundred different ways of making money from porn sites.

Let me mention a few ways – adult webmasters and clients can sell memberships and subscriptions, sell ad-space to sponsors, offer expert adult consulting advice, sell e-books and guides, sell sex toys and adult merchandize, sell snapchat accounts, encourage phone sex and sexting, feature behind-the-scenes content on adult tube sites, provide adult escort services and adult content hosting, etc.

There’s a lot of information on how to make money with porn websites. Despite the multitude of options and deluge of information, web masters often complain that they are unable to make BIG money.

Let’s understand the reasons behind the poor performance of adult websites. Read on.

Reason #1: Irrelevant Content

Are you creating and uploading content that’s relevant to your niche? No matter what, audiences visit your adult tube site for porn videos and images.

Adult niches are like double edge swords. If you pick a topic which is too broad, content becomes mundane and run-of-the-mill. Similarly, betting your chances on a very narrow niche that anybody hardly cares for is not admissible.

It’s important to choose a niche which is profitable, interesting, and has immense potential. Is there a way to create niche specific content? Yes. There are many production studios. You can seal business deals with them and purchase content for your website. Acquire all the necessary licenses along with digital rights.

“For all intents and purposes, production studios can help you get high quality and unique content. In the long run, this strategy will yield great dividends”.

Reason #2: Wrong Keywords and High Competition Keywords

Adult webmasters commit two grave mistakes:

1. They target the wrong keywords
2. They aim for the most popular keywords

It’s a well – known fact that search engine rankings are impacted by keywords. It’s important to build content on keywords that are germane to your adult tube site niche.

More importantly, are you placing keywords in your blog / video titles? You all know that the keywords you search on Google always appear in the headlines of articles / video titles. So, your keywords game should be strong.

It’s a common practice to aim for the most popular keywords. But there are only 10 spots in the first page of Google SERP. If your website is new, your tube site pages may not get featured in the first page of Google SERP. There are many established giants such as Pornhub, YouPorn, XVideos, etc.

“Can you dethrone them? To be upfront, it’s not an easy job”.

Is there a way around? Yes, of course! Just set your sights on long tail keywords which are not so popular but very much relevant to your adult tube site niche. Over a period of time, your website will gain massive authority.

Right from massive link building to guest blogging, you should explore and exploit every fragment of the internet ecosystem.

Reason #3: Weak Backlink Profile

Is your backlink portfolio strong? If the answer is a clear ‘NO’, you should start working on building high quality links directing browsers to your adult site.

You can begin with blog commenting. Blog comments often fetch no-follow links. Adult webmasters distance themselves from no-follow links. I agree that no-follow links do not contain enough link juice. But many established blogs contain a healthy mixture of do-follow and no-follow links.

The best link building strategy is to focus on guest posts. A guest post should have two parts – Content & Author bio. There should be backlinks- one each in content and author bio. Lamentably, adult webmasters give scant attention to the latter and concentrate extensively on the former.

Another proven link building strategy is to create resource pages. Adult resource pages contain a bundle of organized links pointing to high-quality adult content.

Reason #4: Website Page Speed

Page speed is an important factor that affects your website traffic. A vast majority of studies have revealed that audiences make repeat visits to adult sites that load in less than 4 seconds. As a matter of fact, website search engine page rankings are profoundly impacted by page speed.

If your adult tube site has scores of obsolete plugins that add zero functionality, remove them. If there’s any duplication of functionalities between plug-ins, un-install the redundant ones. 

Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A CDN effectively handles static web elements such as images, CSS and JavaScript. Adaptive image formats such as Jpeg XR, Web P, etc., should be used. Optimize your porn site videos and images. Focus on adult SEO.

A good hosting plan will also work wonders. Do spare a thought for the same.

Reason #5: Promotion

Are you focusing only on creating content?

Do you promote your adult website aggressively in the right places? If the answer is not in the affirmative, start promoting your porn site on Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, adult forums and directories.

You may approach influencers, porn performers on Twitter, Quora and Tumblr and request them to spread positive word of mouth.

Do you know the 80/20 rule? According to influential and experienced content marketers, you should spend 80% of your time on promoting content and 20% on creating quality content.

In conclusion, sex sells on the internet. You have valuable information on how to make money from porn site. You also know the reasons your adult website is not making BIG money. So, what’s stopping you?

Identify your mistakes and site frailties. Make amends before it’s too late. If you have any questions, shoot them in the comments. We shall reply in a day or two. We would love to know your thoughts. Our best wishes are with you and your adult venture. Cheers!